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Project Runway: Designing Drag Queens

Posted on August 21, 2008 with No Comments

As soon as Season 4 designer Chris March came out dressed as a Viking woman with disco balls for breast plates, Blindie knew this was going to be an episode filled with melodramatics–and delusions of grandeur.

So when the designers were given the task of creating outfits for big and busty drag queens with names like Annida Greenkard, Hedda Lettuce and Miss Understood, we kept track of the Top Ten priceless moments of the episode:

1. Keith, Stella and Leanne complain about Blayne’s overuse of the suffix “licious” and Leanne even threatens to barf…licious.

2. Suede channels his dead grandfather to create a Godzilla gardening outfit that goes unappreciated by his model Hedda Lettuce. But after a one-on-one in the sewing room and a hug session, Lettuce gets on board with the green concept.

3. Blayne interprets Tim Gunn’s critique of his drag dress -a “Pterodactyl out of a gay Jurassic park,” as the greatest compliment.

4. Keith creates yet another fringe dress that reminds Michael Kors of a “messy molting chicken” and lands him on the chopping block.

5. The usually dramatic Jerell disappoints with a Thoroughly Modern Millie dress that Michael Kors describes as “a good Bar Mitzvah moment.”

6. Random drag queen sound bites: “Tim call me,” one queen calls out as he/she leaves the cutting room; “I can break a rib overnight,” Stella’s drag model exclaims as he/she squeezes into his design.

7. A gaunt looking RuPaul sits in to judge the challenge and pays Terri the ultimate drag compliment by comparing her dress to Diana Ross’ film Mahogany.

8. Delusional Daniel refuses to use sequins because it would make him throw up and instead makes a South Beach sherbet-colored maxi dress that gets him kicked off the show.

9. Then Daniel has the nerve to steal Heidi Klum’s signature send-off “Auf Wiedersehen” before she even gets a chance to say it. Hello, this is Heidi’s show–you are out!

10. And ironically, Joe, who complained about divas in a previous episode and practically winced when the drag queens filed into the design room, pulls off the best drag outfit and even manages to hide his queen’s “candy” really well.

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